Trending: Wednesday, December 11, 2013

Published 5:18 p.m. CDT (GMT - 6:00)

Yesterday's Google trends and today's U.S. Twitter trends at bottom

Today's headlines
Person of the Year
▪ TIME: Pope Francis, the people's pope
▪ NBCNews: What a year for Pope Francis: From unknown to Time's Person of the Year

Obamacare
▪ NPR: Sebelius calls for review of HHS practices that led to debacle

Air travel news
▪ NBCNews: Most air travelers opposed to in-flight calls, new poll finds

Stock market news
▪ CNN: Dow falls 130 points

Google
▪ FoxNews: Google's cozy jet fuel deal with feds cost California taxpayers up to $5.3M, report finds

Meteor news
▪ CNN: Meteor explodes over Arizona; big meteor shower begins

Asiana crash follow-up
▪ CNN: NTSB probes fatal Asiana Flight 214 crash
▪ NBCNews: Asiana captain 'very concerned' about making visual landing

Sign language news
▪ CNN: Interpreter at Mandela memorial dubbed a 'fake,' group says
▪ NBCNews: 'Fake' sign language interpreter at Nelson Mandela memorial provokes anger
▪ FoxNews: Sign language interpreter who stood next to Obama at Mandela memorial called a 'fake'

Health news
▪ FoxNews: Popular stomach acid drugs may increase vitamin deficiency risk

Antibiotic news (vegetarian tag)
▪ CNN: FDA hopes to curb antibiotic use on farms
▪ NPR: Drug companies accept FDA plan to phase out some animal antibiotic news

Brain damage from football news
▪ NBCNews: Brain changes, memory problems seen with minor head bumps

Postal news
▪ NBCNews: Canada to phase out home postal delivery to stem losses

Hazing news
▪ NBCNews: New York College freshman dies in fraternity pledge 'ritual:' prosecutors

Breach-of-trust news
▪ NBCNews: Senator fires top aide amid child porn raid

Malaria news
▪ NPR: Global malaria deaths hit a new low

India
▪ NPR: India's Supreme Court restores ban on gay sex

Bird strike news
▪ FoxNews: Air Force: Bird strike caused wreck of $8 million jet

Selfish suicide news
▪ ABCNews: Prosecutors: Fatal NH crash was a suicide attempt

World-of-work news
▪ CBSNews: Why it's not so easy to move from a minimum-wage job

Yesterday's Google trends with at least 500,000 searches
Victoria's Secret Fashion Show 2013

Yesterday's Google trends with at least 200,000 but <500,000 searches
Google Drive
▪ CNET: Google Drive for iOS adds sorting, searching

Sons of Anarchy
▪ E!Online: Sons of Anarchy deadly season 6 finale brings in record ratings

Mack Brown
▪ LATimes: Texas coach Mack Brown denies he plans to resign

Godzilla
▪ UKTelegraph: Godzilla: First trailer for 2014 film released

Obama selfie
▪ CNN: Obama selfie: How did it unfold?

Yesterday's Google trends with at least 100,000 but <200,000 searches
Tila Tequila
▪ Newsday: Tila Tequila goes on Hitler sympathy rant on her blog

Candice Swanepoel (Victoria's Secret model)
▪ E!Online: Candice Swanepoel: Models need to be smart to be successful

Behati Prinsloo (Victoria's Secret model)
▪ DailyMail: She covers up assets as spectacular annual catwalk show airs

Trending now on Twitter
▪ #BethanyMotaGiveaway
▪ #APlusPlan
▪ #MATTYINFINITEEGIVEAWAY
▪ #wcw
▪ #MakeMerry
▪ Kirk Cousins
▪ Bartolo Colon
▪ Christmas
▪ RGIII

Trending: Thuirsday, November 14, 2013

Published 10:31 a.m. CDT (GMT - 6:00)

Yesterday's Google trends at bottom

Today's headlines
Obamacare
▪ CNN: First on CNN: Obama to push administrative fix for insurance cancellations
▪ NPR: Obama moving to delay cancellations of insurance plans

Secret Service news
▪ NPR: Secret Service shaken by new report of misconduct
▪ NBCNews: Secret Service agent removed after leaving bullet in woman's hotel room

Gun violence news
▪ CNN: Baby boy gunned down with his dad in New Orleans car ambush

Camp Pendleton Marine deaths
▪ FoxNews: Officials say 4 Marines killed in accident at Camp Pendleton

Whitey Bulger
▪ CNN: Bulger gets two life sentences plus five years

Emergency landing news
▪ CNN: Southwest Airlines pilot apparently tells passengers 'We're going down'

Cruise ship news
▪ CNN: Cruise line: Passenger intentionally went overboard north of Hawaii

Life on Earth news
▪ CNN: Scientists find signs of life in Australia dating back 3.48 billion years

Civil War news
▪ CNN: Piece of Civil War ironclad brought to surface in Savannah

Facebook news
▪ NBCNews: Police intercept suicidal teen after Facebook tip

Google news
▪ NBCNews: Google prevails over authors in digital books case

Gender news
▪ NBCNews: Sisterhood of spies: Women crack  the code at CIA

Poaching news
▪ NBCNews: Ivory crush in Denver to send message to poachers, traffickers

Ethics news
▪ NBCNews: Transplant group says death-row organ donations 'ethically troubling'

Sinkhole news
▪ FoxNews: Sinkhole opens up in Florida, swallows portions of 2 homes

Downsizing news
▪ USAToday: Lockheed Martin slashes 4,000 jobs

Culture-in-the-U.S. news
▪ NBCNews: How 'Big Bang' became rule of the TV universe

Obituaries in the news
▪ NBCNews: 'I Love Lucy' actress Shirley Mitchell dies at 94

Yesterday's Google trends with at least 200,000 searches
What would I say
▪ USAToday: 'What would I say' app plots your next Facebook status

Yesterday's Google trends with at least 100,000 but <200,000 searches
Snapchat
▪ See Trendilla from yesterday (Wednesday, November 14, 2013)

Todd Christensen
▪ USAToday: Raider, 'Renaissance Man' Todd Christensen dead at 57

Maleficent

Ryan Ferguson
▪ NYDailyNews: Mother of Ryan Ferguson said family knew son would be free one day

Mexico vs. New Zealand
▪ SBNation: Mexico vs. New Zealand: Answering big questions and looking ahead

Dakota Johnson
▪ People: Fifty Shades of Grey: Jamie Dornan and  Dakota Johnson transform into Christian Grey & Anastasia Steele

American Horror Story
▪ HuffPost: Stevie Nicks to guest star on 'American Horror Story'

Victoria's Secret Fashion Show 2013

Sam Hurd
▪ ChicagoTribune: Former Bears receiver Hurd gets 15-year-prison sentence